Found an interesting post on podcasts being put out by universities, and another list of college podcasts here. In addition to the sites they lists, I also found several more universities that are now (more…)
Writing the Novel: From Plot to Print by Lawrence Block One of our requirements for school is to write five reading journals each semester. Here is a portion of one of this semester’s journals. As (more…)
Check out this interesting article about the upcoming Harry Potter book. Scholastic has agreed to print Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on paper that has a minimum of 30 percent post-consumer waste (more…)
Contests and Fun Stuff To celebrate making the final four of the American Title III contest, KJ “Kim” Howe is holding a really fun “kill me off” contest. She explains it in detail on the Drunk Writer (more…)
Contests and Fun Stuff KJ Howe just made the final four of the American Title III contest! Fashioned after American Idol, the American Title contest focuses instead on novels by unpublished authors. (more…)
These aren’t necessarily books that were published in 2006 (most weren’t), just books I read in 2006. I hit an all-time high, reading 60 books this year. So while my favorites list might seem long, it’s (more…)
I just saw a fascinating talk on BookTV on CSPAN given by Thom Hartmann, author of the book Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class — And What We Can Do About It. He talked a lot about the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been so busy lately. My parents came to visit for a week, and my cat is sick. He’s going in for a procedure next week, and hopefully it will clear up a lot of his problems. The siding is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m watching a documentary on PBS called “Fire and Iceâ€? about the “Winter Warâ€?, a war between the USSR and Finland in 1940. Wow. I never learned anything about this in school. Or if I did, it (more…)
Laurell K. Hamilton is one of my favorite authors. I’m currently reading Seduced by Moonlight and enjoying it a lot. I first discovered her books with A Kiss of Shadows, which led me to try the Anita (more…)
